Chapter 416: Chapter 409: Willow Tree Village, Yin and Yang Cave Mansion (Second Update, Please Subscribe)
This Great Cauldron is merely an ordinary stone cauldron, not a magical treasure, just particularly sturdy.
True Monarch Youhuo lightly tapped it, immediately producing a crisp sound.
Everyone took turns holding it, repeatedly inspecting it, confirming that this was an ordinary great cauldron, yet forged through special means, appearing quite solid.
On the front of the cauldron, there was a scroll of a cultivation technique and some rough illustrations, about a thousand words in total.
This was a martial arts cultivation technique.
This world is a cultivation immortality world.
Cultivating immortality is the mainstream.
Martial arts cultivation techniques exist, but most are not of high quality.
Many martial arts experts in the mortal world, even after decades of hard training, cannot defeat a Qi Cultivation Third-Layer cultivator.
Practicing martial arts leads nowhere.
But on the stone cauldron, there is a recorded technique named "Spirit Transformation Art."
The Spirit Transformation Art is divided into two volumes, six layers.
The upper volume, once cultivated, can allow ordinary people without spirit roots to condense spirit roots.
The lower volume, once cultivated, can let ordinary spirit roots continuously evolve, even transforming into Celestial Spirit Roots.
"This technique is quite intricate, yet somewhat useless," analyzed Lu Xuanji: "Cultivating to the first layer, there is a 30% chance to give birth to a spirit root; the second layer, a 50% chance; the third layer, a 100% chance to give birth to a spirit root!"
"The latter three layers mainly focus on refining spirit roots, allowing evolution. If cultivated to the sixth layer, it can transform into Celestial Spirit Roots... but it requires high perception."
"This technique is exquisite, but it’s useless to us!"
True Monarch Youhuo sighed.
"Very useless!"
Other true monarchs also echoed.
Different status brings different perspectives.
For lower-level cultivators, awakening Celestial Spirit Roots and awakening Five Spirit Roots are equivalent to a European prince and a pauper, a top-tier genius and a top-tier fool, a vast difference exists between them.
But for Nascent Soul cultivators, Celestial Spirit Roots don’t mean much. If a descendant is a mortal without spirit roots, a single Fifth Grade Spirit Transformation Pill immediately turns them into Celestial Spirit Roots.
A descendant with Five Spirit Roots seems untalented, but a single Fifth Grade Creation Fruit can transform them into Celestial Spirit Roots.
Similarly, some cultivating immortality families also widely plant Spirit Transformation Grass, refining Spirit Transformation Pills.
In some respects, nationwide awakening of spirit roots and nationwide cultivating immortality isn’t difficult.
At least technically, there are no bottlenecks or difficulties.
The challenge lies in the shortage of resources.
If everyone cultivates immortality, the daily consumption of Spiritual Qi would quickly exhaust the world’s Spiritual Qi, entering the End of Dharma Era.
By then, forget about Divinity Transformation and Refining Void.
Even the number of Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators would drastically decrease.
High-level cultivators, for the sake of their own interests and to protect the orderly cycle of world Spiritual Qi, would not commence nationwide cultivation of immortality.
This technique, although intricate, is actually useless.
True Monarch Youhuo continued, "Look at the imprint on the bottom of the cauldron?"
Raising the cauldron, an imprint of a Yin-Yang fish was carved on its base.
Looking at this imprint, Lu Xuanji’s head buzzed, his mind blurred, as if entering a painting of a black sky and white earth.
In this world, Yin Yang Qi intertwined, black and white mingled, evolving the Five Elements, time, space, destiny, cause and effect, reincarnation, karmic force, slaughter, darkness, and light, etc.
The next moment, the void shattered!
The black sky and white earth dissipated.
Pu chi!
Lu Xuanji spat a mouthful of blood.
The other true monarchs present also spat a mouthful of blood.
Only True Monarch Youhuo seemed to have experienced this before or deliberately avoided it, thus remaining unaffected.
"Divinity Transformation intent, a black sky and white earth map!"
True Monarch Yaochi spoke, a trace of fear flashing in her eyes: "Even just a hint of Divinity Transformation intent struck us down. If it deliberately targeted us, wouldn’t we die on the spot!"
"The intent left by the Divinity Transformation is not deliberately targeting us; rather, it has a flavor of imparting doctrine!"
Jin Xi said, a trace of joy flashing in her eyes.
She cultivated the Yin Yang Illusionary Body, corresponding to the changes of Yin Yang, and was greatly enlightened by the brief Yin Yang intent just now.
"The power of Divinity Transformation is like a towering mountain and a deep sea. The gap between Nascent Soul and Divinity Transformation is greater than the gap between Qi Cultivation cultivators and Nascent Soul cultivators!" True Monarch Youhuo said, "Back then, after detecting the anomaly of the stone cauldron, I perused some ancient books and confirmed a Divinity Transformation expert once emerged from a small mountain village!"
"That Divinity Transformation expert returned here in his later years and left his opportunities on the great cauldron. If destined, one can follow the cauldron’s aura to find the cave mansion left by the Divinity Transformation!"
"I searched for three years, finally pinpointing the Divinity Transformation’s cave mansion. After venturing inside, I returned injured."
"If fellow Daoists join forces to break open this cave mansion, we each will gain something significant. But if not, we’ll have to hand it over to the sect. By then, it won’t concern us anymore!"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
This Divinity Transformation cave mansion, although surrounded by a formidable array.
Yet, for the Hehuan Sect, it’s not much.
Those Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul powerhouses, those half-step Divinity Transformation experts carrying Sixth Grade Spirit Treasures, have a high probability of breaking the cave mansion’s array. But by that time, most treasures within would belong to the sect, leaving nothing for them.
Who would want to drink soup when there’s meat to eat?
...
Everyone departed, and shortly afterward, arrived above a lake a hundred miles away.
"The cave mansion is at the bottom of the lake!" True Monarch Youhuo said, "An Illusion Array is set up outside to isolate cultivators’ senses. Junior sister Yaochi, junior sister Xi Yue, we need you to unravel the array here!"
True Monarch Yaochi stepped forward, taking out an array plate and began calculating.
Jin Xi also stepped forward, inserting three flags into the ground, and started calculating.
About half an hour later, Yaochi said, "This Illusion Array is a bit tricky! We need to dismantle it with another array!"
Jin Xi said, "Since junior sister has a way to break it, I’ll leave everything to you!"
Speaking, she took a step back.
"Next time, senior sister’s turn!"
Yaochi said, beginning to arrange the array flags, setting up array nodes, accompanied by the array’s setup and nodes’ operation.
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
The ground trembled, and the lake before them disappeared, gradually revealing a portal.
True Monarch Yaochi was the first to enter.
The other cultivators followed closely, entering after her.
With the change in the void, a large door to the cave mansion appeared before their eyes.
Above the cave mansion, four large characters were engraved.
"Yin Yang Cave Mansion."
Swipe!
True Monarch Yaochi stepped forward, exerting her strength, but the stone gate was extremely solid, without any sign of movement.
Slash!
True Monarch Wangqing wielded a long saber, the saber, like snow, slicing down onto the stone gate, emitting a crisp sound.
But the door remained unchanged.
Only a few damages appeared, a few saber marks.
The next moment, a force surged on the stone gate, the damaged part quickly returning to normal.